A World Beer Cup where only a fraction of breweries outside of the USA participate in?Look at the list of participants, for instance for Belgium only 27 breweries (some of which are owned by the same company) are listed, that's like one sixth of the Belgian breweries only.

15%?! Now I know you're joking because even the risky dealers (porn sites) only pay 7.5% max.

You clearly don't work in the porn industry. A lot of pornsites would be very happy if they only had to pay 7.5%, if they could even get a merchant account and not have to go to a third party processor and pay 25%. Not to mention the ridiculous fees VISA charges you just to get a merchant account if you're a porn company.

secretcurse writes: California police have served a search warrant and seized computers from Jason Chen, the Gizmodo Editor that unveiled the 4th generation iPhone to the world. Gawker media's COO has replied claiming that the warrant was served illegally due to Mr. Chen's status as a journalist. The plot thickens...Link to Original Source

An anonymous reader writes: Phishers are constantly experimenting, looking for better ways to defraud Internet users and reap more money from their crimes. The second half of 2008 found phishers adopting new strategies and tactics. To combat phishing, we seek to better understand how they are using domain names, and why. Domain name usage is an important measure of the scope of the global phishing problem, and examination of domain name system trends can provide effective new anti-abuse tools.
This study from the Anti Phishing Working Group (APWG) describes their analysis of a comprehensive database of the phishing that took place in the second half of 2008, and is a follow-up to our earlier studies of data stretching back to January 2007.Link to Original Source

SF:tsauter writes: This is mostly a bugfix release. Many changes and bugfixes are included. To much to list them all here.
The following scripts are added this release. For a detailed description please have a look at the usage informations of the scripts. Most of the other scripts a slighty improved.
- check_eventlog
Check the Windows eventlog for entries.
- check_file
Script to check files and directories (e.g. size, age, existing,...)Link to Original Source

According to Skype, it did: "On Thursday, 16th August 2007, the Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and suffered a critical disruption. The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of Skype user computers across the globe as they re-booted after receiving a